Creating our Insignia Series product line presented a unique challenge. Because our Signature Series selectorized line was over 10 years old, it made sense to replace it with an innovative new product. But at the same time, sales of Signature Series were at an all-time high and growing each year.

Wearables are all the rage these days, and their ripple of influence is evolving the fitness world. Boosted by technological advances in accelerometers, which are sensors that detect motion, speed and direction, these fitness-tracking devices have become catalysts for understanding how we expend energy, and how we communicate that understanding with other technology.

Here are three ways wearables are changing the fitness world as we know it.